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Donna


You Know You Are Addicted To Gardening When . . .





·      Your neighbors recognize you in your pajamas, rubber clogs and a cup of 
coffee. 


·      You drive around the neighborhood hoping to score “trash” to reuse in your garden. 


·      Your preferred winter reading material is seed catalogs.
·      You grab other people's banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for 
your compost pile.
·      You have to wash your hair to get your fingernails clean. 


·      All your neighbors come and ask you questions. 


·      You know the temperature of your compost every day. 


·      You buy a bigger truck so that you can haul more trees, shrubs and mulch. 


·      You enjoy swatting Japanese beetles into soapy water and watching them drown. 


·      Your boss makes "taking care of the office plants" an official part of your 
job description. 


·      Your non-gardening spouse becomes familiar in botanical names. 

·      You find yourself deadheading flowers wherever you 
go. 


·      You dumpster-dive for discarded bulbs after commercial landscapers remove 
them to plant annuals. 


·      You plan vacation trips around the locations of flower shows, botanical gardens, arboreta, 
historic gardens, etc.


·      You sneak home a 7 foot Japanese Maple and wonder if your spouse will 
notice. 


·      When considering your budget, plants are more important than groceries. 

·      You always carry a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag in your trunk as 
emergency tools. 


·      You appreciate your Master Gardener/Certified Nursery Landscape Professional badge more than your jewelry.
·      You spend more time chopping your kitchen greens for the compost pile than 
for cooking. 


·      You like the smell of horse manure better than Estee Lauder. 


·      You rejoice in rain...even after 10 straight days of it. 


·      You have a compost container on your kitchen counter. 

·      Soil test results actually mean something. 


·      You'd rather go to a nursery to shop than a clothes store. 


·      You know that Seven is not a number.
·      You take every single person who enters your house on a "garden tour."
Happy Gardening! 

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